Asturian
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Commemorative issue the principality of asturias, an autonomous community within the kingdom of spain obverse asturian victoria cross features: country spain type circulating commemorative coin year value 5 pesetas (5 esp) metal aluminium-bronze weight 3 g diameter 175 mm thickness 1
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The author of the two manuscript treatises is pedro de lucuce y ponce, also written as lucuze (avilés, -barcelona, ); asturian scientist, military and mathematicianin lucuze wrote a regulation for the academies, establishing studies of three years, in four nine-month courses: the first two dedicated to military training in general and the last two specialized for the instruction of artillery and engineering officersdon pedro de lucuze"barcelona, octoberhis first destination was on the shores of granadahe died in barcelona 7 years after having written these two treatiseswith handwritten text, 8 blank sheets, 6 folded plates with printswith handwritten text, 14 blank sheets, 11 folded plates with printshe belonged to several regiments, studying mathematics and the art of war on his own, and it turned out that he was admitted to the royal corps of engineers, with the rank of lieutenant and extraordinary engineer on january"tratado 7º de la estática": 162 pare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikihe studied latinity at the villa de avilés and humanities at the university of oviedoin he was appointed field marshal and, in early , shortly before his death, he was promoted to lieutenant generalin he was appointed assistant professor to the director of the royal military academy of barcelona until , when he was appointed head director by the minister of war josé patiñoin the two years of operation, lucuze managed to collect a total of volumes of scientific works, many of which went to the barcelona academyour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storetwo volumes in 4to (20he was director until the year of his deathwithin the military ranking of the royal corps of engineers, in he was promoted to chief engineer and in to director engineeron the back of the last page, the inscription "it is in accordance with the compendium of architecture, which is taught in the third class of the royal academy of barcelona"magnificent full leather binding, guards in marbled paper, red-tinted cuts and spine with a five-rib compositionin , from his position as director general of artillery and engineers, he was appointed director of the royal society of mathematics (predecessor of the royal academy of exact, physical and natural sciences), founded by the count of aranda, a position he held until , when the academy disappeared after the resignation of the count of arandacatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available"tratado 8º de la arquitectura civil": 5 blank sheets, 86 pin he abandoned the career of theology just started, preferring the military careerthe plates are chalcographic engravings with architectural and geometric figures, very common in the scientific books of the time (attached to the manuscript according to the author's criteria)he was born in avilés, the son of the doctor tomás de lucuze, where he spent his childhood and youthsame exquisite calligraphy in both volumes; clean, elegant and perfectly legibleplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteon the back of the last page the inscription "is in accordance with the compendium of static, which is taught in the 3rd class of this royal academy
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